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Hmmmm…interesting…all the comments raking Wilner over the coals for his tabloid sensationalism over facts writing have mysteriously disappeared.

Couldn’t take the heat Wilner? Some of those comments hit a little too close to home?

Wilner’s take on this is just sad…Oregon has a few bad apples (which have been cut) a few good kids that made mistakes (that have been punished) and a few question marks that we are waiting for facts to surface before rushing to judgement. Kelly is handling this as well as any coach I have seen and just about every school has had to endure some verison of this at some point.

Oregon State endured seven arrests over a few months in 2005. That’s got Oregon beat by three.

Heck Washington had multiple players on their 2000 team that had more arrests individually than Oregon has combined. And they weren’t even remotely punished.

Quit throwing gasoline on the fire to get a few more readers…try to act with a modicum of integrity.

Gary

All you sports columnists are cut from the same cloth — snarkyness coupled with smug condensation. You’re all Jim Murray wannabes, sarcastically piling on the obvious — without the wit or humor or insight Murray employed.

Next time you have a plan to control 105 18-22-year-old college students 24/7 you lay it out in your next column, okay?

By the way how are those astute Pac-10 basketball picks coming along? Ha!

Gary

Serious

Wilner,
You’re a Creep. You and John Canzano should team up! During the season, I read some of your stuff and thought you might have a head on your shoulders. This tripe shows you’re just a sensationalist! “If it Bleeds, it Leads”! Pig Pile on the Ducks, when a rough patch comes along. Won’t be reading you anymore.

milo

Didn’t catch the first round of Ducks Gone Wild recap. Did any UO frat boys spank and kiss some schollie players…or just the usual burglary, DUI, Facebooking and crapping ones pants?

Yeah, WTF, I call Oregon Duck PILE ON. Pluck the Ducks as they suck down more felon juice!

Haha, UO is making $C look like choir boys. I have to hand it to UO however, no players have been caught taking cash…just the usual felony crap.

Idaho Nick

Boise State doesn’t have these problems. And they beat Oregon. Hmm. Interesting!

The Wisdom Cow

UO is not getting nearly enough embarrassment out of their current predicament. Several Duck fans have noted they can’t believe guys like Holland did not realize they were so high profile. To which, I counter, Masoli, the highest profile Duck of them all was named in a buglary, yet the story all but disappeared once his name was associated with it. How’s that for a lessen in how to behave as a high profile athlete? Perhaps had it gotten the play it deserved, others would have realized they were subject to the spotlight.

milo

This just in, the University of Niketown at Eugene has hired a first rate and experienced Probation Officer. In association with the AD, Dean of Student Life and the NCAA compliance officer, the Probation Officer will oversee frat spankings and cover ups, and save the bacon for lads like Masoli and the dozen of other offenders currently on scholarship.

Go *ucks!

lesliemedford

“smug condensation”…nice! Oregon is the current Classless U. and here we have defenders of that classlessness. It doesn’t matter if it happened elsewhere before…ALLl those programs are/were an embarrassment to collegiate athletics. Frankly most football programs are. Oregon is the latest Thug U, with a coach who is in denial along with, apparently, Samarhino, Gary and Serious.

Wilner is perfectly right on, calling this one as it is. His fault that he doesn’t do more recognition pieces on Stanford’s lack of any such problems. Any sports fan who cares about decency will acknowledge Stanford’s achievements in running a character-based Football program.

Oregon’s inability to run a respectable football program is a horrible joke on that university. Wise up, defenders of hooligans, or are you just the same? Maybe that’s it.

http://dannyduck2 Dannyduck2

As an avid Duck fan, I am very upset about the condition of the program at this minute. I am thinking of dropping my season tickets. The linebacker was under age, driving drunk, and driving without insurance and Kelly was right to boot him off the team. He should hold a team meeting and lay out exactly what the team rules are. Break them and you are history. I would rather see Oregon have an honest 0-12 rather then an undefeated team of lawbreakers.

Smokey-D-Bear

I guess we know why the Ducks were so good this season.. I’m sure the Quacks football team does a bang up job in the classroom as well..

If Cal and Stanford could accept felons and sleazebags like Oregon and U$C we would see conference titles in the Bay Area.

DannyDuck2,
I appreciate your attitude about it and hope you DO drop your season ticket until things DRAMATICALLY improve. Kudos to you for standing up for what is right and good. Good luck to you and a scrubbed clean Oregon football program. Victories are tarnished by all these idiots.

You defend guys who drive drunk on your streets, steal from your students and assault people including girls?

Sad stuff.. How much does a school have to sacrifice for a conference title these days?

1. Academic admission standards

2. The safety of (non jock, normal sized) students

3. Disciplinary standards that would get regular students booted from school

4. NCAA rules most schools are restricted by

5. The safety of the surrounding community

6. Valuable scholarships that could go to reputable, law abiding students

..is it worth it?

MostWantedSpartan

Drop the Oregon’s and Washington’s and add the CSU’s!

We desperatley need the help and have good size markets!

Stanford and Cal don’t have the Bay Area market, San Jose does. That’s why the 49ers and A’s are desperatley trying to break in. It’s not IF you build it they will come. It’s build it and they WILL come.

Ralph

Stick to covering Bay Area sports Wilner.

206 Cardinal

About the best you can say for Oregon is that at least their boosters have been smart enough not to get caught doing anything probation-worthy yet (the money is what puts teams on probation; multliple felonies are OK).

Gary, I refuse to believe that major college football has to be a disgrace like your Ducks program currently is. You’re absolutely right about Washington under Neuheisel; what he allowed to happen on his watch was inexcusable. Oregon State in 2005 was ugly also. But Riley tightened things up, and Washington has been squeaky clean post-Neuweasel. Note also that there are two programs in the Bay Area that have had periods of success without anything remotely resembling the mess in Eugene.

The fact that Jamere Holland managed to stay academically eligible despite apparently being functionally illiterate — that says a lot.

D W

Prediction for Pac-10 Football 2010: An LA school will likely win and go to the Rose Bowl. Everybody else outside of awful Wazzu follows. No way does Oregon repeat. Too distracted.

badhunter

Funny how all the Oregon haters jump on the “I’m Jealous of Oregon Football” bandwagon. Fact is, Oregon is one of the nation’s premier football schools. What college kid doesn’t drink a few too many beers at a frat party or get in a fight? Happens all the time. Oregon has more talent than Stanford and Cal combined, and will easily win the Pac-10. And Wilner and punks simply can’t stand to fathom that fact and have to resort to muckraking and mudslinging.

lesliemedford

Ha! Badhunter. What a fool you are. “Oregon haters? Jealous?” What a heinous joke you are. Incarcerate yourself and do everyone a favor.

206 Cardinal

“Jealous of Oregon.” That’s a good one. Oregon’s last Rose Bowl victory was in 1917.

Watch: Oregon’s decade run of good football is going to end soon, and they’ll slide into mediocrity like Colorado did after McCartney left (in disgrace).

Kerr

Oregon has more talent than Stanford and Cal combined…

So what happened, Oregon left some talent behind when they ventured to Palo Alto?

Oregon’s last Rose Bowl victory was in 1917.

Even Cal fans can laugh at that!

Eugenean

Sounds like the Cal fans are still smarting from the 42-3 beat-down they received at Autzen. Have fun with your Oregon hand-me-downs next season: Tedford and Kevin Riley. Hahaha …Kevin Riley.

http://www.uoregon.edu Reality Check

Wilner, like John Canzano, is a sensationalist, not a journalist. I can’t stand you people who sit on your throne and say Chip has “lost control of his program” and that Oregon is “Thug University”. These are a few individual cases of some pretty young guys making some pretty bad mistakes. They’re facing legal consequences and losing playing time, and are embarrassed for themselves and their team. They’re not making any excuses, and they don’t need a bunch of self-righteous Beaver fans from the sticks piling on like they’ve never used bad judgement before. Anyone remember when Oregon State coach Mike Riley suspended Al Afalava for ONE GAME after he got drunk and crashed into a Corvallis bus stop? Or when players were arrested for stealing homosexual livestock from the school of agriculture? I don’t think Mike Riley was crucified, but that’s because OSU doesn’t matter. Wilner needs to listen to Chip, and get all the facts. The facebook incident was the last in a long string of issues for Holland. For instance, he was unable to participate in the Rose Bowl due to academic issues, but he doesn’t mention this. After this show, Chip went on Canzano’s radio show and owned him. Audio: http://www.955thegame.com/95-5-Game-Special—Kelly-Vs–Canzano/6428097